Have you ever wondered what happens to your old electronics? Where do they go after you throw them away? Meanwhile, $60 billion worth of household appliances fill landfills worldwide every year—the planet's "e-waste" amounts to tens of millions of tons. Only 20% of this waste is properly recycled and reused. The rest is shipped to developing countries, often under the guise of aid. Pakistan, Vietnam, India, Nigeria—but Ghana, one of the poorest countries in West Africa, suffers the most. The fate of its capital, Accra, could be the plot of a hard-boiled cyberpunk novel. Poor people burn digital scrap in bonfires, extracting valuable metals that they sell for pennies. Flames and thick smoke fill the horizon, and the earth becomes saturated with lead and other heavy metals. As for the people who work here, they often don't even live to be 30. ATN app: ➡ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=by.itv.atn ➡ https://itunes.apple.com/ru/app/атн/id1410677136?mt=8 https://t.me/ATN_BTRC https://vk.com/atnbtrc https://www.facebook.com/atnbtrc https://twitter.com/atnbtrc http://ok.ru/atnbtrc https://www.youtube.com/atnbtrc #AroundThePlanet #news #AtnBel